Hannes discovery of 7 new asteroids and 2019 RU3 space rocks streaking through Orion constellation
Jul 27th: Hannes Is Back & Monster Space Rock
Tag: asteroid
Jul 19th: Farming Mars & Wet Nights
The major challenges to colonize Mars is how to supply the air, food, and water necessary to survive and flourish. More at #365DaysOfAstro
Jul 12th: Back On The Sky & Exploring The Lunar South Pole
Eric Christensen discovered 2019 QK and 3 other space rocks. And also the race to explore the Moon by robots and eventually human lunar colonists is on.
Jun 21st: Exploding Space Rocks & Night Sky Surprise
Today @Nmcanopus will discuss about a beach ball sized object came from asteroid belt that entered Earth atmosphere and night sky measurement at Cosmic Campground International Dark Sky Sanctuary
Jun 15th: Trojan Asteroids
We imagine the asteroid belt as a place where all the rocks hang out in the solar system. But there are 2 huge bands of asteroids that orbit the Sun with Jupiter called the Trojans. And soon we may actually get a chance to see them up close!
May 28th: Twinkling heart of the Milky Way, New type of asteroid, & Bennu
Join us today as we talk about radio transmitters found in the twinkling heart of the Milky Way. Then we’ll look at an asteroid that has a comet-like tail. And finally, Bennu is about to be sampled by OSIRIS-Rex, and we helped make that happen!
May 17th: Most Dangerous in 2018 & Toughest Asteroid
The discovery of potentially hazardous asteroid 2018 XV5 and 2018 GG5 by Alex Gibbs. #365DaysOfAstro
May 10th: Close Approaches & Loneliest Asteroid
Today we have stories from near earth object discoveries by Brian Africano and Greg Leonard.
May 3rd: Earth Glow & Asteroid Slam
Although you can’t see the extremely faint geocorona, you can observe other components of the Earth’s nightly airglow.
Apr 19th: 100 Moons & Followups
Our 30″ Schmidt telescope on Mt. Bigelow, Arizona covers an area equivalent to approximately 100 full moons. Eric Christensen observed 116 followup observations on a single night.